{"id":3395,"date":"2017-08-13T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/fundraiser-for-tlingit-elder-kookesh-takes-place-aug-25\/"},"modified":"2017-08-13T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T07:58:00","slug":"fundraiser-for-tlingit-elder-kookesh-takes-place-aug-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fundraiser-for-tlingit-elder-kookesh-takes-place-aug-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser for Tlingit elder Kookesh takes place Aug. 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tlingit &amp; Haida, Sealaska and Sealaska Heritage Institute have joined together to host a medical fundraiser and appreciation dinner later this month for Sen. Albert Kookesh (Ka\u2019sh\u00e1an), who was recently diagnosed with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Door prizes, a catered dinner, 50\/50 raffle and a dance performance will all take place at the fundraiser, which runs 5-8 p.m. Aug. 25 at the Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Donations are still needed. Native foods, art, jewelry, gift certificates and desserts are appreciated and can be dropped off at several locations: Tlingit and Haida (9097 Glacier Highway), Sealaska (1 Sealaska Plaza) and Sealaska Heritage Institute (105 S. Seward Street).<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Carley Jackson (463-7379), Sally Kasnick (723-5447) or Carmaleeda Estrada (586-9280).<\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: An earlier version of this article didn\u2019t include the date of the fundraiser. The event is Aug. 25. The Empire regrets this error.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tlingit &amp; Haida, Sealaska and Sealaska Heritage Institute have joined together to host a medical fundraiser and appreciation dinner later this month for Sen. Albert Kookesh (Ka\u2019sh\u00e1an), who was recently diagnosed with cancer. Door prizes, a catered dinner, 50\/50 raffle and a dance performance will all take place at the fundraiser, which runs 5-8 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":3396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3395"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}